Feb132016

Twenty-one years ago today, the Los Angeles Dodgers introduced 26-year-old Hideo Nomo as the team’s newest pitcher. The five-time Japanese all-star was the first major league player from that country to appear in a U.S. major league game.

Nomo threw one no-hitter for the Los Angeles Dodgers and followed it up five years later with one for the Boston Red Sox. Here they are:

  • Los Angeles Dodgers (NL)
    Tuesday, September 17, 1996
    Los Angeles Dodgers 9, Colorado Rockies 0
    Coors Field (Denver)
  • Boston Red Sox (AL)
    Wednesday, April 4, 2001
    Boston Red Sox 3, Baltimore Orioles 0
    Oriole Park at Camden Yards (Baltimore)

Nomo this week was named baseball operations advisor for the San Diego Padres. Perhaps he’ll bring that franchise it’s first no-no.

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Author: Dirk Lammers

Dirk Lammers is a veteran journalist who began rooting for the New York Mets in the early-1970s when the team’s no no-hitter count was barely 2,000 games old. Lammers has since turned his research into Baseball’s No-Hit Wonders: More Than a Century of Pitching’s Greatest Feats (Unbridled Books) and NoNoHitters.com, where he maintains the Internet's largest archive of no-hitter information.

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